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Examples of [[The Scrappy]] in [[Live-Action TV]] include:
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* Babe Carey Chandler from ''[[All My Children]]''. Oh my God, Babe. She started as the slutty gold digger playing two brothers, then the writers decided to make her a heroine, without actually changing her in any way. One of the worst things was when she knowingly kept Miranda, Bianca's daughter, away from her, letting everybody believe Miranda was dead. Oh, but she wasn't totally heartless, she let Bianca be Miranda's godmother! And she told Bianca at least once that Bianca was lucky to not be a mother because she had all this time for herself, while Bianca was grieving her daughter's death. And then, after Bianca got her daughter back, not thanks to Babe, and gave her a very deserving slap, the writers actual had Bianca said that everything Babe did was out of love, for others, with total sincerity... Yeah.
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* Marley And Lindsay on ''[[The New Adventures of Old Christine]]'' they're [[Rich Bitches]] who seemingly have no purpose other then to make jokes about how ignorant and "poor" Christine is, they're not the least bit funny, they're just incredibly irritating.
* Kirk DeVane on ''[[Newhart]]'' was a painfully unfunny [[Jerkass]] for the show's first 2 seasons. Midway through the second season, the writers desperately tried to [[Rescued from the Scrappy Heap|save him]] by giving him a sweet, likeable girlfriiend. It only worked part way. She herself was quite likeable and appealing, but it was impossible to understand [[What Does She See in Him?|what the Hell she saw in Kirk.]] Fortunately, around the same time, a new, hilarious [[Jerkass]], Michael Harris, made his debut on the show. At the start of the third season, Kirk and his new wife were [[Put on a Bus]], Michael [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute|took his place on the show]], and ''Newhart'' [[Growing the Beard|grew the beard.]]
* Gina Russo from ''[[Nip Tuck]]''. She started as a minor foil for [[Chick Magnet|Christian Troy]] when he began attending [[Tropaholics Anonymous|SA Meetings]], but she quickly became a semi-regular, showing up at the most inopportune times to cause Christian and Sean grief, such as forcing Christian to wait on her hand and foot as she prepared to give birth to a baby she thought was his ([[ChocolateHer BabyChild, but Not His|It wasn't]])). She was annoying, verbally abusive ("asshole" being her favorite insult,) mildly psychotic, and manipulative, and thanks to Ryan Murphy's inability to let plots die, she [[Yo-Yo Plot Point|kept coming back.]]
* Nikki from ''[[Numb3rs]]''. She's got a 4 year degree from the streets of Compton, yo!
* A [[Vocal Minority]] of ''[[The OC]]'' fans loathed Marissa Cooper passionately, mostly because she tended to be a self-destructive drama magnet (and on a soap opera, that's ''saying something'') who became the center of attention of any scene she was in and tended to [[Jerkass|treat people like crap]]...but everyone around her continued to like her and put up with it. {{spoiler|The third season ends with her finally getting [[Killed Off for Real]].}}
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